Toilet-paper holder.



S. J. BENS 6L A. B. HUBBARD.

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UNTED STATES ATN FCE.

SAMUEL J. BENS., 0F BERKELEY, AND ALBERT B. HUBBARD, 0F FRUlTVALE,

CALIFORNIA.

TOILET-PAPER HQLDEP..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 17 1913.

Application filed July 11, 1910, Serial Noy 571,480. Renewed July 27,1912. Serial No. 711,917.

To all whom, t may concern Be it known that we, SAMUEL J. Bans andALBERT B. HUBBARD, citizens of the United States, residing,respectively, at Berkeley and Fruit-vale, county of Alameda, State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inToilet-Paper Holders, of which the following is a speciiication.

Our invention relates to toilet-paper holders of that class in which theparts ofthe holder are adapted to receive, hold and deliver either tlatpaper packages or the round roll, thus adapting a single holder to thetwo forms of toilet-paper on the market.

rlhe object of our present invention is to simplify this constructionand to improve the appearance and eiiectiveness thereof.

The invention aforesaid is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, inwhich- Figure 1 shows a front elevation; Fig. a side elevation, with apackage; Fig. 3 side elevation with a roll; Figs. at and front and crosssection of part of the cross bar with the hook; Fig. G shows a crosssection on line m-g/ of Fig. 1.

The body of this holder is a light frame. This frame may be constructedin various ways, but in the particular construction which we have chosento illustrate our invention it is formed of two parts, one of which is across piece marked 2, which consists of a flat bar of sheet metal, theends of which are bent twice at right angles to form an off set, asshown in the section of Fig. G. The projecting ends 2a are in planeparallel with the bar and fitted to lie against the wall and to besecured thereto by screws inserted through holes. On the face of the barand centrally located, is a suspending device or hook 3, formed by partof the plate punched out from the rear, and off set to the frontsufliciently to receive the loop of an ordinary toilet-paper package.The other part of the frame consists of a single piece of wire marked lat its upper end bent as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the vertical parts ofthe said wire above the forward bends being fixed in rear of the frontcorners of the bent back portions of the cross bar 2, as shown in Figs.2 and 3. The side bars of this wire part of the frame are bowed forwardas shown clearly in Fig. 2, the bows 1n forming the side guards of theholder whereby the ends of the package or roll are held securely inplace against side displacement. The lower Ut D L0 ,part of this wireframe is bent back on each side in substantially horizontal position andthen bent downward and later merging into the cross bar 1b, which formsa back against which either the package or the roll rests, as shown inFigs. 2 and 8. rllhese parts, as above described, constitute the fixedpart of the holder.

The movable part we call a movable frame which carries the rolleradapted to bear on the fiat package of paper or to carry a roll, as inour patent of June 7, 1910. This frame which is of E shape is formed bybending a stout piece of wire twice at right angles to form a verticalswinging arm 4 and tw'o parallel rods or arms 8 and 9. f these two rodsthe upper or pivoting rod S has its bearings in holes formed in the bentparts at each end of the cross bar 2. It turns freely in the bearing,being restrained only by a spring l0 which tends to hold the roller onthe lower rod 9 against the lower cross part of the fixed frame.

The lower part 9 of this movable frame -carries a roller 5 adapted tobear on the front of the paper pack, and to press it against the crossbar, and has friction rings 13 preferably of rubber for gentlycontacting with the sheet of paper. The end of this roller is free andis of proper size to receive an ordinary roll of toilet paper beingiitted to the axial cavity of such a roll.

As a matter of course, the spring causes the roll to bear against thefixed frame at its lower part and to give to the roll a properfrictional contact. The roller therefore is either a frictional pressureroller for the paper package or serves to carry a paper roll, which socarried, is caused to bear against the lower cross piece of the fixedframe.

lVe claim as our invention l. A toilet paper holder comprising a U-shaped frame having its legs intermediate their ends bent up to formretaining walls, a cross piece connecting the legs together above thebent portions, a clip on said cross member for holding a package ofpaper, a swinging arm mounted on said cross member and extending beyondthe bent portions of the legs, and a roller on said arm.

2. A toilet paper holder comprising a main frame having a device forsuspending a package of paper from its upper end, and forwardlyextending guard portions for receiving tlie paper package between them,a roller to bear on said package and a E shaped frame carrying saidroller on its lower laterally extending' arn'i and pivotally mounted onthe inain 'frame by its upper` laterally extending arm, substantially asdescribed.

3. A toilet paper holder comprisingl a base having a device forsuspending` a paper pack from its upper end, and a C shaped frame havingits upper laterally extending arm journaled on tlie base and its lowerlaterally extending arm carrying a roller to bear on the paper pack,substantially as clescribed.

.ln testimony whereof, we alliX our signatures in the presence of twowitnesses.

SAMUEL J. EENS. ALBERT B. HUBBARD. lVitnesses M. R. SEELY, ROBERT R.Russ.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of ateiits, Washington, D. C.

